tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:02:55 +0000wowwritelybiowareblogbloggerblogrolleaenchantinggmailgooglehtmljavascriptmetammonwnpatchpvpsigsArcane BlasterTank ffs, I can't nuke all day!http://solid-state.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (SolidState)Blogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1472787691705235106Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:18:00 +00002010-04-16T00:27:49.759+03:00Leaving WoWIt's been a great 5 years. I've had fantastic experiences which I'll never forget, made many friends and perhaps touched some lives.Raiding, my main activity (together with leveling alts :)) has always been fun and continued to be fun right up till the moment I decided to quit. From the shouts of joy on TeamSpeak when Ragnaros (40-man raid!) was defeated to the same shouts on Ventrilo when Lich http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/04/leaving-wow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-3601539555698063191Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:19:00 +00002010-04-01T17:36:25.982+03:00First ICC-25 Run with the +10% BuffLast night (as is almost always the case on Wednesday) we had more than enough people for ICC-25, so we had our usual ICC-25 clearing run.What was different about last night was that it was the first time with the all-new +10% ICC buff, a 5% increase over the previous weeks' buff.To make a long story short, there were some noticeable differences but they didn't make much difference in terms of http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-icc-25-run-with-10-buff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-5399496036360323924Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:24:00 +00002010-03-31T16:51:24.464+03:00A Romp Through Ulduar-25 HardmodesLast night being a Tuesday we had less than 25 raiders online as is usually the case for us lately (officers are currently busy recruiting so hopefully this sad situation should change in the near future).After a while the GL asked if we all wanted to go Ulduar-25 hardmodes, I guess the officers also wanted a break from ICC. Since people agreed (we all want the drake :)) the invites were sent outhttp://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/03/romp-through-ulduar-25-hardmodes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-3215679884511143005Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:44:00 +00002010-03-29T11:46:16.634+03:00Some Thoughts About Grouping in WoWAbout a week ago Stylish Corpse put up this nice post about PQs and Grouping in MMOs in particular. As I haven't played WAR I cannot comment on PQs.However I do disagree with some of the blanket assertions used by Stylish Corpse regarding Grouping and leveling and I can comment specifically about WoW."if you do want to group you have to put up with getting less xp, taking longer to complete http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-thoughts-about-grouping-in-wow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-4650974201995855507Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:57:00 +00002010-03-28T17:51:55.913+03:00Heroic ICC 10 ImpressionsI wanted to put down on paper, err virtual in this case, my thoughts and impressions of ICC-10 man heroic boss fights. This won't be a strategy guide as the information on the normal websites (wowwiki, wowhead, tankspot) is already pretty good, but I will highlight some things I think are important, especially from my point of view as a healer.For all(?) bosses one of the main differences http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/03/heroic-icc-10-impressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-7654214946176260914Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:35:00 +00002010-03-28T15:53:50.040+03:00State of the SolidBeen a while since I posted, as I've been writing short updates on Buzz which was enough for me. But I hear I may actually have a couple of readers so perhaps I should update here too ;pSolidfaith and his guild have been advancing nicely, downing several bosses in Heroic ICC-10 since downing LK-10 opened the way. LK-25 alas remains an elusive target as the guild struggles with people not showing http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/03/state-of-solid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-5574473341346150976Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:14:00 +00002010-02-14T16:19:55.854+02:00Buzzing Around at Google BuzzWhere have I gone to these last few days? Well I've been trying out Google Buzz and liking what I saw :)Sure it's not a replacement for Blogger (yet!) but it is very easy/fast to use and really that's what I always wanted, a place to make short small posts about my WoW experiences. I don't really have the time (or inclination) for long/in-depth articles.For my style of blogging, once Google add http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/02/buzzing-around-at-google-buzz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1005044535706682643Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:23:00 +00002010-02-07T15:25:31.004+02:00Blood Queen Lana'thel 10-man DownLast night I went for a scheduled 10-man raid. Actually we were supposed to have 2 teams running but we were short on both an off-spec tank and a healer, so in the end the officers decided to put one strong 10-man team up and have the other deferred to another evening when hopefully there would be all the mains needed.Obviously not something all the people who got left out were happy about, but http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/02/blood-queen-lanathel-10-man-down.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1935751486977676203Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:11:00 +00002010-02-02T17:28:29.665+02:00Putricide-10 DownLast night ICC was accessible, which means of course we didn't have enough people in the guild for a 25man raid. Murphy's Law and all that...So instead we got together a 10man raid. As I've written before we only have main tanks in the guild which means for this 2nd group, one tank was an off-spec (warrior). In addition we were missing a healer so a DPS paladin went on his off-spec.In-spite of http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/02/putricide-10-down.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-7727262317811810633Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:29:00 +00002010-01-31T15:07:07.544+02:00Small StepsI haven't reported on progress for a while, for the simple reason there really hasn't been any. At least, not significant (in my eyes).Sure, the guild cleared ICC-25 of all but Putricide and Blood Queen but really, those are the two bosses that I would like to report as taken down since taking them down means we can advance, but so far no luck. We have not even tried Blood Queen 25 yet and http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/01/small-steps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-7134357145637900151Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:09:00 +00002010-01-24T18:34:46.783+02:00Do all WoW players prefer ez-mode?Not if you judge by my recent random heroics - AN on Solidfaith and Zul'Drak on Solidstar.By the way the trigger for this post is an excellent post by PvD about what the Death Penalty really means. Go read it :)However at the end PvD talks about how in WoW 5-man PuGs frequently kick a person who is under-performing or under-geared. Or easily leave group (especially if they are the tank) if they http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/01/do-all-wow-players-prefer-ez-mode.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-6552243621900337499Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:07:00 +00002010-01-21T13:58:46.278+02:00The Blood Council (25man) ImpressionsLast night after clearing the first wing in ICC-25 our officers decided it would be better to give the new wing a try instead of doing Fester/Rot/Putri.So off we went.The trash before the blood council hits hard and the first pull nearly wiped the raid. We cleared the other packs more carefully (CC-ing one mob) but in general our DPS is high enough so that trash thankfully is not a problem.Once http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/01/blood-council-25man-impressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-55397287576958544Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:56:00 +00002010-01-18T15:07:27.765+02:00Holy Priest Healing in Festergut 25Last night, which was Sunday, the guild continued our ICC-25 raid from last week.Last Wednesday we had 3 groups doing 10-man ICC with some slots filled by off-specs and this actually went well (all 3 groups made it up to Putricide).Thursday we cleared the first wing in IC-25 but couldn't continue due to massive server lag. So today we continued.Festergut was as usual 2-shot, no idea why we alwayshttp://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/01/holy-priest-healing-in-festergut-25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-3043277422211133444Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:17:00 +00002010-01-13T15:31:28.204+02:00Rotface-25 Down, All is WellBeen a while since I've posted, really mostly been too busy. But WoW business has been as usual, since the new wing opened we've cleared both Festergut and Rotface in 10-man and 25-man. Rotface-25 only last night since the guild missed a couple of raiding days due to missing people (including myself one day).Speaking of last night, on 10-man we have already had 2 groups try out Putricide, one http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2010/01/rotface-25-down-all-is-well.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-8730284293885306461Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:24:00 +00002009-12-29T15:16:09.317+02:00PuGs Since Patch 3.3There seems to be more than the usual amount of negative posts on various blogs lately about pugging since patch 3.3 was released.The latest I read was this rant by BBB, who is usually much more calm in his posts. But I've read other negative posts from other bloggers about the quality of PuGs since 3.3.This has me a bit puzzled since I must admit I haven't run into nearly as many bad PuGs as BBBhttp://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/pugs-since-patch-33.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-7061663838458591202Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:13:00 +00002009-12-22T17:49:49.659+02:00Honor's Code has a good pointThere's a good post over at Honor's Code about the new LFD system and wait times. In a nutshell, wait times are short now because many raiding tanks are doing one daily heroic for the Frost Emblems and once the need for those drops, so will the number of tanks.It's a good point but I'm not quite so pessimistic. Certainly I don't think we'll be back to the wait times of pre-3.3 for the simple http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/honors-code-has-good-point.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1095923329359886149Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:15:00 +00002009-12-21T15:29:42.795+02:00Updates to Healing ICCFirst of all there is a nice post up at Dreambound about healing ICC-10 as a Resto Druid. Actually it was posted Dec. 9 so I'm a bit behind the times but better late than never :)The guide is a bit too focused on general fight mechanics for my taste but is otherwise very good. I disagreed with some points, e.g. the need to run away from Marrowgar's whirlwind - there is no need, it can be easily http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/updates-to-healing-icc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1222528087014120710Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:06:00 +00002009-12-20T14:11:08.702+02:00Healing ICC 25 as a PriestThis is a post about healing the first wing of ICC, hopefully I'll remember to do followups for additional wings as they open up. I'm not going over boss tactics, except as they relate specifically to healer, as there are enough good sources of information for general tactics.
The first boss is rather healing intensive but don't expect to top healing meters here. Paladins and Shamans assigned to http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/healing-icc-25-as-priest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-4695978800612607977Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:40:00 +00002009-12-17T18:50:37.003+02:003.3 First Week ImpressionsWell it has been a week since 3.3 came out and I continue to be pleased with it, especially the new LFG tool.I've been doing a lot of random heroics, mainly on Solidd but also one per day with Solidfaith (for the Frost Emblems). Although the teams I have been grouped with have varied in ability and success, the new system is an enormous improvement over the previous system in all cases, http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/33-first-week-impressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-160004022266804615Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:10:00 +00002009-12-11T02:24:54.788+02:00A very nice 3.3 first nightWell nothing went wrong tonight thankfully, and I managed to login without a problem and join the raid. Well, addons will take a bit more configuring to go back to normal state but otherwise the game was fine, not even much server lag (only once or twice the whole evening and not very bad then).Lady Deathwhisper went down on the first attempt, of course the guild had already wiped on her several http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/very-nice-33-first-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-2394018174331690754Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:05:00 +00002009-12-10T10:25:18.196+02:00No patch for me, but guild did nicely last nightAlas, I had problems with the new patch and couldn't login (only finally got it sorted this morning), but at least my guild raided and they downed the 1st boss in ICC (25man) and got the 2nd boss down to 3% or so, so I'm sure we (assuming I have no further problems and can get a raid spot) will get it down tonight.Pre-patch 3.3 the guild also progressed very nicely, clearing Faction Champions on http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/12/no-patch-for-me-but-guild-did-nicely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-5831197774147819081Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:06:00 +00002009-12-05T02:11:39.468+02:00Solidd Goes TankingWell it's been a month since I last mentioned Solidd. I've been busy raiding of course with Solidfaith but Solidd has not been neglected. Over the past month I've been busy doing heroics with him and even the very rare 10man raid. Although I haven't done the heroics every day I still got enough emblems to gear up my resto spec rather nicely.However I was not really enjoying my Moonkin spec much, http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/11/solidd-goes-tanking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-6154514298552229353Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:00 +00002009-11-20T17:26:51.573+02:00A Tribute to InsanityAlthough my guild raids 25man ToC and so has good gear and although we had a team who already downed Anub'arak in Heroic 10-man ToC, I have, until last night, failed to take him down. Nor has any team of the guild managed to do a wipe-free ToC-10 heroic till last night.Every time, a combination of slightly weak DPS, bad tanking, not enough healing (this was usually the cause) or just bad luck http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/11/tribute-to-insanity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-2577808555611797893Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:20:00 +00002009-11-15T13:33:58.150+02:00Ulduar-10 Hard Modes - Revisited4.5 months ago I blogged about Ulduar-10 hard modes, how we tried to get a few of them down and met with limited success.My-my, how times have changed :)This weekend, with much better gear I entered Ulduar-10 and very much nuked the place. Well, almost...On Friday evening we took a friend of one of the guildies, a holy priest who was pretty well geared but not quite as much as we were. So we werehttp://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/11/ulduar-10-hard-modes-revisited.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-7446128791674092718Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:24:00 +00002009-11-11T16:26:09.616+02:00An almost successful Heroic ToC-25 and Other StuffIt's been a while since I last blogged, and the reason is due to the "Other Stuff" part of the headline - you see, I've started playing Torchlight :)What happened was, I was disappointed with lack of heroic ToC-25 attempts by our guild, every time we were missing a tank or just not enough people. Tank shortage meant trying to do heroics with my new level-80 Druid was mostly pointless, so I was http://solid-state.blogspot.com/2009/11/almost-successful-heroic-toc-25-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SolidState)0